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The works of the English poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical

Publication date: 1790

Topics: English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism, English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism, Poets, English -- Biography, English poetry, English poetry -- Early modern, Poets, English

Publisher: London : Printed by John Nichols ; for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Son, L. Davis, B. White and Son, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, C. Dilly, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, J. Johnson, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, R. Baldwin, H.L. Gardner, P. Elmsly, T. Evans, C. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, J. Murray, J. Sewell, W. Goldsmith, W. Richardson, T. Vernor, W. Lowndes, W. Bent, W. Otridge, T. and J. Egerton, S. Hayes, R. Faulder, J. Edwards, G. and T. Wilkie, W. Nicol, Ogilvy, and Speare, Scatcherd and Whitaker, W. Fox, C. Stalker, E. Newbery

Collection: americana

Book from the collections of: University of Michigan

Language: English

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

75 volumes : 17 cm

Volumes 1-6 contain lives of the poets ; volumes 74-75, General index

Printer varies: volumes 1-6, 74-75: John Nichols ; volumes 7-12: H. Hughs ; volumes 13-18, 69-70: Rivington & Marshall ; volumes 19-24, 68, 71: H. Baldwin ; volumes 25-30, 47: A. Strahan ; volumes 31-36: J. Davis ; volumes 37-41: H. Goldney ; volumes 42-46: T. Spilsbury & Son ; volumes 48-51, 63-64: R. Blyth ; volumes 52-56, 72: M. Brown ; volumes 57-62: A. Hamilton ; volumes 65-67, 73: T. Wright

Each volume has special title page

Volume 1. Lives, Cowley to Otway -- Volume 2. Lives, Waller to Dryden -- Volume 3. Lives, Smith to Fenton -- Volume 4. Lives, Gray to Broome -- Volume 5. Lives, Pope to Shenstone -- Volume 6. Lives, Young to Jenyns -- Volumes 7-8. Cowley -- Volume 9. Cowley (continued) ; Denham -- Volume 10. Milton's Paradise lost -- Volume 11. Milton's Paradise lost (continued) ; Paradise regained -- Volume 12. Milton's smaller poems -- Volumes 13-14. Butler -- Volume 15. Rochester ; Roscommon ; Otway -- Volume 16. Waller -- Volume 17. Pomfret ; Dorset ; Stepney ; J. Phillips ; Walsh -- Volumes 18-21. Dryden's miscellaneous poems -- Volumes 22-24. Dryden's Virgil -- Volume 25. Smith ; Duke ; King -- Volume 26. King (continued) ; Sprat ; Halifax -- Volume 27. Parnell -- Volume 28. Garth ; Rowe -- Volume 29. Rowe (continued) -- Volume 30. Addison -- Volume 31. Hughes -- Volume 32. Sheffield ; Prior -- Volume 33. Prior (continued) -- Volume 34. Prior (continued) ; Congreve -- Volume 35. Blackmore ; Fenton -- Volumes 36-37. Gay -- Volume 38. Lansdowne -- Volume 39. Yalden ; Ticknell ; Hammond -- Volume 40. Somervile -- Volume 41. Somervile (continued) ; Savage -- Volumes 42-43. Swift -- Volume 44. Swift (continued) ; Broome -- Volumes 45-47. Pope -- Volumes 48-51. Pope's Homer -- Volume 52. Pitt -- Volume 53. Pitt's Virgil (continued) -- Volume 54. Thomson -- Volume 55. Thomson (continued) ; Watts -- Volume 56. Watts (continued) -- Volume 57. Ambrose Philips ; West -- Volume 58. Collins ; Dyer -- Volume 59. Shenstone -- Volumes 60-62. Young -- Volume 63. Mallet ; Akenside -- Volume 64. Akenside (continued) ; Gray ; Lyttelton -- Volume 65. Moore ; Cawthorn -- Volume 66. Churchill -- Volume 67. Churchill (continued) ; Falconer -- Volume 68. Lloyd -- Volume 69. Cunningham ; Matthew Green -- Volume 70. Goldsmith ; Paul Whitehead -- Volume 71. Armstrong ; Langhorne -- Volume 72. S. Johnson ; Whitehead -- Volume 73. Whitehead (continued) ; Jenyns -- Volumes 74-75. Index

Volume 1